Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] never before [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never before realised so clearly how drinking makes you want to drink . |
| 2 | ‘ It is the way it seemed to me , ’ Ven stated , but then qualified — and her heart started to thunder again , ‘ But then , until I met you , I 'd never before experienced — jealousy . ’ |
| 3 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 4 | We visited Blackwell 's , such a bookshop as I had never before seen , and Vivien left with armfuls of books , and I , happy with one modest Penguin . |
| 5 | I had never before seen any Benedict 's sister do that . |
| 6 | I had never before seen such a soft light in those once proud eyes , or felt such a friendly touch of her once cold hand . |
| 7 | Now I had never before tried to regress anyone to a time when they were under the influence of anaesthetic , but I decided to do so on this occasion . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've never before seen a rabbit with either a pocket , or a watch to take out of it , ’ she thought . |
| 9 | I 've never before seen cadaveric spasm in a case of homicidal manual throttling , and it 's interesting . |
| 10 | I have never before asked readers of New Scientist to take political action . |
| 11 | I have never before had the privilege to work for such an environmentally-conscious , safe , dynamic and forward-thinking company . |
| 12 | The Centre provided a traditional Northwest salmon buffet , an experience such as I have never before encountered . |
| 13 | It is all very well to be phlegmatic and hope that all will come right in the end but surely it would be better to stimulate discussion with a view to obtaining fresh ideas on how to deal with new circumstances which have never before confronted the capitalist world ? |
| 14 | Next , the tenor , who was engaged as a stop-gap , is a church singer from Lodi who has never before acted on such a big stage , who has only taken the part of the primo tenore a couple of times , and who moreover was only engaged a week before the performance . |
| 15 | She 'd never before seen a carpet so thick that it showed vacuuming lines , like a lawn . |
| 16 | She 'd never before felt such a surge of creative stimulation . |
| 17 | She came again and again , as he ate out her genitals with a lust she 'd never before experienced , and swallowed her slimy mucus as if her vagina was secreting the food of the gods . |
| 18 | Once you 've got the rating , you know that you 've never before enjoyed such flying freedom . |
| 19 | She had never before contacted any of the emergency services , and she was surprised by how long the operator took to put her through to the police . |
| 20 | She had never before seen or felt such vitality . |
| 21 | Grainne thought it was strange that she had never before realised how many Kings of Ireland had been exiled and had later returned . |
| 22 | She supposed she had never before realised just how much time Eleanor and Julius spent together , or how close their work brought them . |
| 23 | And Clara , confident that she would meet with no misunderstanding , managed to relate episodes that she had never before related , and when , finally , she came to the subject of the future , she awaited Clelia 's views as though they might even be of use . |
| 24 | But she had never before met such qualities so mildly and tactfully and decoratively combined , so settled and established , so kindly displayed . |
| 25 | Julia thought that she had never before met anyone who exuded such restless strength and yet could be so gentle in his dealings with other people . |
| 26 | She had never before taken anything which did n't belong to her , but she was cold , tired , and very hungry . |
| 27 | He knew , as all the boys had always known , that she had not had the best of lives with his father , but she had never before spoken to him like this . |
| 28 | She had forgotten , sometimes she told herself , that she had never before known the comfort of a close , undemanding , asexual companionship with another woman . |
| 29 | She had never before known how to be still and wait ; there had never been anything as worth the waiting for as this was . |
| 30 | At the thought of it , her whole body shook with sobs ; she had never before experienced such despairing weeping . |